Nothing stops Buffett from paying more

I am tired of hearing billionaires, such as Warren Buffett, call for raising taxes on the rich. Nothing like creating class warfare.

I am tired of hearing billionaires, such as Warren Buffett, call for raising taxes on the rich. Nothing like creating class warfare.

Buffett is two-faced. He receives no big, taxable salary. I understand that he gets $100,000, equal to about one share of stock a year for running Berkshire Hathaway. Basically, his earnings are long-term capital gains taxed at 15 percent. He says his secretary is taxed at a higher rate than he is taxed. If that is true, then his secretary makes a tremendous salary. It has to be well over six figures.

As I understand it, Buffett plans on giving his children about $300,000 each when he passes on to that great bank in the sky. The rest will go to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to avoid paying taxes to the federal government.

He doesn't want the government spending his money because he knows much of it will be wasted. The Gates Foundation gives a great deal of its funding to overseas recipients at a time when millions of Americans are suffering and could use the help. Charity starts at home.

If Buffett feels he should pay more to the U.S. government, he can get out his checkbook and write a check to the U.S. Treasury. There is nothing prohibiting him from doing that. Go for it.

JIM GAMBERT

Pickerington

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